激しい風が今心に舞う「サヨナラ」はただ一度の過ちなのかたとえ500マイル離れても夜が来てまた心は求め合うのさA strong wind dances in my heart now"Goodbye" was just a one time mistakeEven if we're separated by 500 milesWhen night comes our hearts demand each other again

伝えたい言葉が心で止まる言えない言葉がため息になるThe words I wanna say remain in my heartThe words I can't say become a sigh

何処へ消えて行くのか 伝わらぬ想いよDark Side Of My Dream 心を閉じて鏡の向こうで君の声がする Don't Leave Me Now!I wonder where they go, those unspoken feelingsDark Side of My Dream, my heart is closedYour voice is on the other side of the mirror, Don't Leave Me Now!

Just like the two lives I attended in Tokyo, the outfits were the same and the set lists were very similar.

During the first day, I was on the second floor on the right hand side (like the second day of the Tokyo live -- in fact, Festival Hall's auditorium was nearly the exact same as NHK Hall). I couldn't see as well as I would have liked, but luckily my seat on the second day was on the first floor! Granted it was all the way in the back, but I could see so much better!!

Honestly the morning I got back to Tokyo I immediately went into a very exhausting week of job training, so unfortunately my memory is a bit muddled. I can't recall what happened on which day, so I'll just give you some details.

Mostly the best parts were during the MCs. During the first MC on one of the days, Takamiy did what he's apparently known so well for -- tripped. It was so cute, haha. The MCs were generally the same content, talking about Grateful Birth and it's meaning, talking about memories and stuff like that, showing off the tour goods.

Again, they did the whole skit with Sakurai coming out on the horse, Hiko-chan. Takamiy put the carrots (that he bought off Rakuten) all the way into its mouth so they disappeared into the mask head itself on one of the days. Also, on the second day during the Ding Dong Ditch skit, instead of the gun making the Ding Dong noise, it barked. They started going, "Is there a dog inside?!" And Takamiy took the gun and started petting it going "Yosh yosh yosh". Actually I believe they didn't even do the Ding Dong Ditch skit because of this. All the things made different noises.

It was during this tour goods promotion that in attempt to get something out of the giant trunk that Sakurai carried behind Hiko-chan, that Takamiy nearly fell inside and had to catch himself on the edges -- but then he couldn't get back up! Masaru yelled something like, "What the hell are you doing!?" and they went to help him up after just staring at him for about 10 seconds, haha.

My favorite MC part was perhaps on the second day. Takamiy was talking about what they could have been if they hadn't been born as they are, and formed THE ALFEE. He said, "Maybe Sakazaki and Sakurai were a couple…" and at that point, Sakazaki turned to Sakurai and started waving at him flirtatiously. Sakurai went along with it for a moment before bursting out with, "How come you get to be the woman!?" And they started very comically arguing, and Takamiy finished with, "And maybe I would have been their child!" to which Sakurai yelled, "Would you be a girl too!?" (or something to that effect) It was absolutely hilarious.

As far as songs go, like I said before, they were basically the same. The second day was a bit more special, though. For their acoustic cover, they played "Riverside" by the band America (oh hey, America lol), and did a third encore! Because they had apparently promised years ago they would perform this song the next time they played Osaka Festival Hall (I believe they hadn't done a live there in about 4 years?), they performed Radical Teenager. The audience went crazy for it. I was mostly impressed that they remembered and came back to give that to their Osaka fans.

Overall I think I had more fun on the second day Osaka live than any other concert. For some reason I was able to really rock out even though the man next to me kept falling asleep…!!!!

I'm looking forward to Takamiy's solo lives and the next ALFEE tour!! Thanks for reading!